TB patient a USNA grad

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Published in the New York Crimes:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/health/02tick.html?th&emc=th[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/health/02tick.html?th&emc=th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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As the Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous form of tuberculosis began treatment yesterday in Denver, the patient and government officials here and abroad provided sharply divergent accounts of his 12 days of world travel. The accounts seemed to agree only in the missed opportunities to head off what has become an international public health scandal.</p>

<p>The patient, Andrew Speaker, has said that public health officials in Fulton County, Ga., told him a trip would not be risky. But those officials said that he had been clearly warned of the dangers. In interviews, public health officials at the county, state and federal levels all said he should not have traveled and defended their handling of the case…

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